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Some photos of my trip to San Francisco.

I went to the USS Hornet aircraft carrier, Saw the Blue angels and bypassed NAS Alameda

A-7 Corsair, or Unofficially named 'S.L.U.F.' (Short Little Ugly Fu.. I think you know what I mean )



F-14 on board the USS Hornet:



...and its mighty engines



...with an aggressor TA-4!



Blue angels practicing around San Francisco!! Best thing I've ever seen



USCG Dauphin??



I don't know what this is but it was buzzing around San Francisco...



I'm pretty sure this is a Blackhawk



Earlier on I got to go on HMNZS Te Kaha and they took me to Kaikoura. But how do they get me to shore?! Airlifted...





At a little airport in Kaikoura:



But before that I went in an Iroquois from Burnham:





Then we arrive at a little school:





Dan








AAARGH!!! Wrong place Please move it!!!

wow - a ride in a Huey and Seasprite - awesome - how did you manage that?....your pic of the biplane in San Fran is a Boeing Stearman ..and you are right it is a USCG Dauphin.

Naki wrote:

QUOTE (Naki @ Jan 8 2009, 02:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

wow - a ride in a Huey and Seasprite - awesome - how did you manage that?....your pic of the biplane in San Fran is a Boeing Stearman ..and you are right it is a USCG Dauphin.

Operation 'Warpaint' An art competition an my school a few yews ago, I came second, and I got to redeem my prize (A trip to Kaikoura in the HMNZS Te Kaha) in August last year. but about a year before that the first prize winner's prize (an LAV ride and a Iroquois flight) was held in Christchurch and a runner up and I were invited to endure the first prize aswell

Dan

Dan , ive got to go back to school ... today,s prize's seem a little bigger since i was there ... the USS Hornet , an Essex class carrier from WW2 , wont go into history here but a recent advert for Stein,y Pure .. Nuclear Powered .....as Nelson Mutz would cry 'HA HA' - the very same class of Carrier .